Comparative Drama articles from June 2006

Comparative Drama archives from June 2006

Talking with ghosts of Irish playwrights past: Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats ...(Theater review)
June 22, 2006... In 1998, Marina Carr's play By the Bog of Cats... premiered at Ireland's famous Abbey Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Carr's play was the first written by a female dramatist to be produced on the main stage of the national...

Edmund Eyre's The Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish docudrama.
June 22, 2006... Jacques-Louis David's famous portrait, The Death of Marat (La Mort de Marat, 1793), garners Charlotte Corday's assassination of Jean-Paul Marat attention in art history. However, theater critics have not sufficiently explored the wealth of...

Serving Don Juan: decorum in Tirso de Molina and Moliere.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Although from quite different methodological and disciplinary perspectives, both Larry W. Riggs and George Mariscal identify a definitive marker of the "early modernity" generally ascribed to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century western Europe: a...

Money changes everything: quarto and folio The Merry Wives of Windsor and the case for revision.(Theater review)
June 22, 2006... While countless stagings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have been set in a bucolic "merrye olde England," Bill Alexander's 1985 RSC rendition took Shakespeare's representation of a 1590s English bourgeoisie, numerically anagrammatized its...

Edward L. Rocklin. Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Edward L. Rocklin. Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 2005. Pp. xxvii + 413. $39.95 paperbound. Edward L. Rocklin's Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare is...

Steve Nicholson. The Censorship of British Drama, 1900-1968.("The Censorship of British Drama, 1900-1968, vol. 2")(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Steve Nicholson. The Censorship of British Drama, 1900-1968. Vol. 1, 1900-1932. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2003. Pp. x + 350. $69.95. Steve Nicholson. The Censorship of British Drama, 1900-1968. Vol. 2, 1933-1952. Exeter:...

Daniel O'Quinn. Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Daniel O'Quinn. Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 412. $60.00. In Staging Governance, Daniel O'Quinn looks deeply into the legitimate, illegitimate,...

Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation, and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare's History Plays: Performance, Translation, and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 287. 55.00 [pounds sterling]/$85.00. Like Shakespeare's histories...

Philip C. Kolin. Understanding Adrienne Kennedy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Philip C. Kolin. Understanding Adrienne Kennedy. Columbia S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 222. $34.95. Seventy titles into its Understanding Contemporary American Literature series, the University of South Carolina...

Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber, eds. and trans. Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber, eds. and trans. Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. vii + 356. $89.50 casebound; $29.95 paperbound. Following acknowledgments (vii), an...

Jose Manuel Gonzalez, ed. Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Jose Manuel Gonzalez, ed. Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006. Pp. 327. $60.00. Following an introduction by the editor, "Shakespearean Criticism in Contemporary Spain" (7-20),...

Clifford Davidson, ed. The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Clifford Davidson, ed. The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages. Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2005. Pp. xvi + 317. $78.50. This volume begins with a list of illustrations (viii-x) and a preface by the editor (xi-xvi) and contains the following...

Della Pollock, ed. Remembering: Oral History Performance.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Della Pollock, ed. Remembering: Oral History Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xii + 205. $75.00 casebound; $24.95 paperbound. This volume begins with acknowledgments (ix), a preface by Linda Shopes and Bruce M. Stave...

Paul Menzer, ed. Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriar's Stage.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Paul Menzer, ed. Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriar's Stage. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2006. Pp. 244. $52.50. This volume begins with two introductory essays: Paul Menzer and Ralph Alan Cohen, "Introduction:...